In the six years since Herbert Ypma invented a new genre of travel publishing with the original Hip Hotels, an astonishing expansion has brought Highly Individual Places into every neighborhood of one of the most vibrant cities in the world: London This new Hip Hotels book contains district-by-district coverage, including an introduction to овагь the neighborhood that succinctly sums up its particular atmosphere There are specially taken photographs of each hotel, accompanied by informative descriptions plu
Candida HA¶fer creates meticulously composed images of public and institutional spaces marked with the richness of human activity, yet largely devoid of human presence Whether a photograph of a national library or a lounge at Volkswagen's headquarters, HA¶fer's images ask us to conduct distanced, disengaged examinations through the windows оваде she creates The collected images present a universe wholly constructed by human intention, unearthing patterns of order and logic imposed on these spaces by their a
In this penetrating and daring biography of Paul Gauguin, Nancy Mowll Mathews traces the themes of sex and violence through the artist's life, from the near-murderous quarrels of his grandparents, to his abusive treatment of his wife, to his sexual encounters in French Polynesia in the 1890s She examines how Gauguin used these complex themes in овадм his art and writings and how he carefully presented his "erotic life" in the autobiographical treatises Noa Noa (1893) and "Avant et apres" (1903) The central